Astronomy Colloquium List: 01-Jan-2012 to 31-May-2012

All Astronomy Colloquium are held in room CSS 2400 at 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm) unless otherwise noted.
Date: Wednesday 25-Jan-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Sean Solomon (DTM-CIW)
Title: Exploring the Planet Mercury with the MESSENGER Spacecraft: Seeking clues to the formation and evolution of the inner planets
Date: Monday 30-Jan-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Location: CSS 2324
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Schawinski (Yale University)
Title: The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes
Date: Wednesday 01-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Philip Hopkins (UC Berkeley)
Title: Star Formation, Black Holes, and Feedback in Galaxy Formation
Date: Monday 06-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Location: CSS 2324
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Kraus (University of Michigan)
Title: Imaging the planet-forming zone in protoplanetary disks
Date: Wednesday 08-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Aurora Simionescu (Stanford)
Title: Zooming out on the X-ray brightest galaxy clusters
Date: Monday 13-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Location: CSS 2324
Speaker: Dr. Colin Snodgrass
Title: "What is that x-shaped space thing? The comet that wasn't."
Date: Wednesday 15-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Suvi Gezari
Title: Flares from Starving Beasts: The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes
Date: Wednesday 22-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: NO COLLOQUIUM
Title:
Date: Monday 27-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Location: CSS 2324
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Dodson-Robinson (University of Texas-Austin)
Title: "Planetary Archaeology in Space and Time."
Date: Wednesday 29-Feb-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Michael C. Cooper (UC Irvine)
Title: Survey Science at z < 2: Understanding the Dominant Modes of Galaxy Evolution
Date: Monday 05-Mar-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Location: CSS 2324
Speaker: Dr. S. Bradley Cenko (UC Berkeley)
Title: The Time Domain Renaissance: From Gamma-Ray Bursts to Advanced LIGO
Date: Wednesday 07-Mar-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Peter Capak (Caltech)
Title: Large Scale Structure and Extreme Star Formation At z~5
Date: Wednesday 14-Mar-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: NO COLLOQUIUM
Title:
Date: Wednesday 21-Mar-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: NO COLLOQUIUM
Title: SPRING BREAK
Date: Wednesday 28-Mar-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Nadia Zakamska (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Observations of quasar feedback
Date: Wednesday 04-Apr-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Desika, Narayanan (Arizona)
Title: The Star Formation Law: Physics at the Intersection of Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution
Date: Wednesday 11-Apr-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Enrico Ramirez Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
Date: Wednesday 18-Apr-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Jon Jenkins (NASA)
Title: The Kepler Mission: Good Planets are Hard to Find, and Vice Versa
Date: Wednesday 25-Apr-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Sean Andrews (Harvard)
Title: Planet-Forming Disks Around Young Stars
Date: Wednesday 02-May-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Alycia Weinberger (DTM)
Title: Circumstellar Disk Composition and Evolution
Date: Wednesday 09-May-2012
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Todd Thompson (The Ohio State)
Title: Feedback Processes in Rapidly Star-Forming Galaxies

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